Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Interviewed yesterday in a hall bedroom off Milk Street Dr. John T. Smoke-Stack said that Harvard would win or Yale would. "But you reds will have to watch Frank," he added. The following in the text of the interview with the cliche expert...
...three conservatives on the bench at least constitute a cohesive minority united by their profound faith in the rights of Capital. They are in the order of their appointment: James Clark McReynolds (1914), Woodrow Wilson's onetime Attorney-General, a peppery oldster of 75 who mortally fears tobacco smoke; George Sutherland (1922), a onetime (1905-17) Utah Senator, who was one of the four Justices Warren Harding appointed in two years; and Pierce Butler (1922), the bench's only Catholic, a onetime railroad corporation lawyer...
...Hughes and Justice Roberts unpredictably on the fence. Currently the known balance is 4-to-3 on the other side, for while Mr. Roosevelt was not able to place an additional member in the court for each one over 70-the total would have been six-nevertheless, when the smoke of battle cleared away, Mr. Roosevelt's formal defeat had been accompanied by the retirement of arch-conservative Mr. Justice Van Devanter. And no matter how much his former Ku Klux Klan membership belies any innate liberalism, Mr. Justice Black, who was given the vacant chair, is a bona...
Over the city of Sao Paulo, Brazil for six years has hung a continual pall of acrid smoke. Meanwhile, the sky above Medellin, Colombia has been clear. Last week this fact was responsible for the death of a crop control program far older and far bigger than any ever attempted by the New Deal. With a suddenness which upset coffee cups all over the world the Brazilian Government announced that it would abandon its 31-year attempt to limit coffee production, would adopt instead a policy of open competition...
...inaugurated a program of destroying coffee bought from growers with the proceeds of a $2.40 per bag export tax on coffee.* Familiar sights in Brazil ever since have been huge grey-green piles of coffee beans smouldering slowly away under great smoke plumes, barges lumbering out to sea to dump coffee overboard, workmen mixing coffee and tar into briquets for building. Since 1931 these activities have destroyed 52,547,493 bags of coffee (almost 7,000,000,000 lb.), worth at last week's price of 9⅛per lb. some $638,750,000, and sufficient to supply every...